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Originally Posted by fotze
With that many people doing this, why is this a big deal anymore.
Not sure if there is a more selfish act than being an everest climber. Huge waste of money, resources, risk your own and others lives, risk your family losing you.
I hope the government doesn't spend any money helping these folks.
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The lure of Chomolungma is still too great in so many people. I know it was a different time and world that George Mallory lived in, but I love the quote from his writings about Everest:
“How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . .”